فرشته

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Etymology

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    Middle Persian plystk'
    Persian فرشته

    From Middle Persian plystk' (frēstag, “apostle; angel”) (plystky, “messenger”). Compare Manichaean Middle Persian frystg, prystg (frēstag), hrystg (hrēstag, “apostle; angle”), Manichaean Parthian fryštg (frēštag, “apostle; angel”), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬙𐬀- (fraēšta-, “messenger”), Middle Iranian borrowings Old Armenian հրեշտակ (hreštak), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic פרסתקא (prestəqāʾ, “royal guard, messenger”), and Classical Syriac ܦܪܣܬܩܐ (prestəqāʾ, “royal guard, messenger”).

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    Readings
    Classical reading? farišta
    Dari reading? farišta
    Iranian reading? ferešte
    Tajik reading? farišta

    Noun

    Dari فرشته
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik фаришта

    فرشته • (ferešte) (plural فرشته‌ها, or فرشتگان (fereštegân))

    1. angel (divine and supernatural messenger from a deity)
      • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی , volume II, verse 713:
        چون فرشته بود همچون دیو شد
        کان ملاحت اندر او عاریه بد
        čūn farišta būd hamčūn dēw šud
        k-ān malāhat andar ō 'āriya bud
        She was like an angel, she became like a demon,
        for that loveliness in her was a borrowed (transient) thing.

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    Proper noun

    Dari فرشته
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik Фаришта

    فرشته • (ferešte)

    1. a female given name, Fereshteh, Fereshte, Farishtah, or Farishta, from Middle Persian

    References

    • “prstq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
    • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “frēstag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
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